The second half of Greg Johnson and Richard Houck's discussion and critique of Ted Kaczynski's infamous manifesto, Technological Society and Its Future, is now up. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/ted-talk-an-analysis-of-ted-kaczynskis-manifesto-part-2/
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Ted Talk: An Analysis of Ted Kaczynski’s Manifesto, Part 2
6,122 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Rich Houck: There’s also other parts I find a small problem with. Ted Kaczynski seems to think that without these modern technologies, people cannot be controlled or subverted or treated poorly, but it seems to me that…
Jim Goad on the riots that have rocked France over the past week, including a video that he produced of them that he compiled from social media. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/the-worst-week-yet-134/
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The Worst Week Yet: June 25-July 1, 2023
2,210 words / 18:01 The French Mistake I’m only going to focus on one story this week because it seems compelling and significant enough to drown out everything else that happened. Since it bears the ominous potential to metastasize into something even more…
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Morris van de Camp on what the Wagner Group's recent mutiny in Russia means, and how it is part of a long history of mercenaries who turned against the governments they fought for. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/the-problem-with-mercenaries/
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The Problem with Mercenaries
1,597 words Yevgeny Prigozhin, the flamboyant leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, launched a coup against the Russian government on June 23, 2023 which began after he broadcast a video message over social media. His mercenaries captured Rostov-on-Don with…
Greg Johnson on how Leo Strauss, via Heidegger and Husserl, believed that a phenomenological approach to Classical philosophy could reveal the mindset of pre-scientific, pre-modern peoples. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/strauss-heidegger-and-ethnology/
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Strauss, Heidegger, and Ethnology | Counter-Currents
1,353 words In my “Notes on Strauss and Husserl,” I discuss the following passage from Leo Strauss’ Natural Right and History: To grasp the natural world as a world that is radically prescientific or prephilosophic, one has to go back behind the first emergence…
Buttercup Dew has produced a new version of Bowden’s 2008 film on British sculpture with much improved video and images, but with the same narration by Bowden. We have also uploaded a complete copy of the original 2008 version of the film, which was previously only available with one segment missing. Both are now available, along with a complete transcript, at The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/film/jonathan-bowden-on-british-sculpture/
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Jonathan Bowden on British Sculpture (2008)
11,342 words / 1:08:49 Buttercup Dew has produced a new version of this film with much improved video and images, but with the same narration by Bowden. The original version produced by Bowden in 2008 is beneath it. https://jonathanbowden.org/wp-content/…
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Free your mind and your nation will follow! Celebrate Independence Day at Counter-Currents by learning about how the idea of the American Revolution as a war waged for equality and civic nationalism simply doesn't follow the facts. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/celebrate-july-fourth-with-counter-currents-2/
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Celebrate July Fourth with Counter-Currents!
601 words Happy Independence Day to our American readers! It is easy for race-conscious Americans to become cynical about July 4th, which is now an occasion for celebrating an egalitarian civil religion fabricated from a misinterpreted line in the Declaration…
Rich Houck reflects on what the Fourth of July — and America — mean to him. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/july-fourth-ruminations/
Jocelynn Cordes on what Tex Mex Motors, a new Netflix series about Americans who go scrounging for old car bodies in Mexico, tells us about the "magic dirt" theory of immigration. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/what-kind-of-gold-is-this/
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What Kind of Gold Is This? | Counter-Currents
794 words A few weeks ago, after I had just completed an essay that touched on the unequal distribution of interest in machines across racial groups (and in which I referred specifically to the demonstrable lack of African interest in engines), I was in the…
Michael Walker reviews Alexander Bätz's Nero: Madness and Truth, a biography of the Roman Emperor that reassesses his legacy as one of history's most notorious tyrants. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/everyone-liked-the-baths-part-1/
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Everyone Liked the Baths: Alexander Bätz’s Nero: Madness and Truth, Part 1 | Counter-Currents
4,287 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Alexander Bätz Nero: Wahnsinn und Wirklichkeit Hamburg: Rowohlt Buchverlag, 2023 Among those able to name any Roman emperors, Nero is likely to be on their list. Although he was Roman Emperor for only 14 years, from…
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The conclusion of Michael Walker's review of Alexander Bätz's Nero: Madness and Truth, examining whether the legends of Nero fiddling while Rome burned and persecuting the early Christians are true — as well as his ignominious end. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/everyone-liked-the-baths-part-2/
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Everyone Liked the Baths: Alexander Bätz’s Nero: Madness & Truth, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
5,133 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Nero was only 16 when he became Emperor. His coming to power had nevertheless been enabled by several murders and/or suspiciously timely deaths. Claudius may or may not have died accidentally, but Narcissus, who favored…
John Morgan's essay on Lars von Trier's film Europa, about an American in Germany in late 1945 who is caught between the occupation authorities and the Nazi Werewolf guerrillas, is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2011/07/lars-von-trier-and-the-men-among-the-ruins/
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Lars von Trier & the Men Among the Ruins
3,662 words The flap caused in May 2011 at the Cannes Film Festival by Danish film director Lars von Trier is no doubt destined to share the same fate as other racial-toned public outbursts from celebrities in recent years, when the lies hiding the realities…
Mark Gullick reviews Greg Johnson's latest book, The Trial of Socrates. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/greg-johnsons-the-trial-of-socrates/
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Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates | Counter-Currents
2,181 words The trial and death of Socrates is one of the most compelling places to begin one’s philosophical education. -- Greg Johnson, The Trial of Socrates Everyone strives to obtain the law. -- Franz Kafka, The Trial Philosophy in the West has been withering…
Trevor Lynch reviews Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny/
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | Counter-Currents
638 words Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny isn’t good enough or bad enough to merit a review. Which I guess is a review in and of itself. I enjoyed the first three Indiana Jones films a good deal. They aren’t serious movies, but they are well-made, entertaining…
Morris van de Camp on the New Apostolic Reformation, a new revolution in American Protestantism that may herald the birth of a new, and potentially healthier, Religious Right. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/the-ongoing-revolution-in-american-protestantism/
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The Ongoing Revolution in American Protestantism
2,622 words Darrell Fields The Seed of a Nation: Rediscovering America Garden City, N. Y.: Morgan James Publishing, Inc., 2008 There is an ongoing revolution in American Protestantism which is worth examining: the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). The NAR…
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Steven Clark's review of Serpent's Walk, a novel about a future race war that was published by the National Alliance in 1991, has been paroled from the paywall. The book was written by an author whose identity remained unknown until recently — and which was quite a surprise when it was revealed. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/serpents-walk/
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Serpent’s Walk | Counter-Currents
2,298 words Randolph D. Calverhall Serpent's Walk Hillsboro, W. Va.: National Vanguard Books, 1991 After I read The Turner Diaries in the early 1990s, I looked for other examples of White Nationalist literature. At around this time I also began listening…
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Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue for the next three Saturdays (July 8, 15, and 22). The second lecture, which dealt with Socrates’ discussion with Polus from 461b to 481b, can be heard here: https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-539-greg-johnson-on-platos-gorgias-lecture-2/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 539 Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias, Lecture 2
361 words / 1:41:51 Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue on three Saturdays later this month (July 15, 22, and 29). The second lecture, which dealt with Socrates’ discussion with Polus…
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Jim Goad on America's first postmodern mass shooter: Kimbrady Carriker, who may or may not be black, may or may not be transgendered, and may either be a Black Nationalist or a Trump supporter, depending on your point of view — and who claimed that the shooting was a protest against gun violence. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/shooting-and-killing-five-people-to-protest-gun-violence/
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Shooting and Killing Five People to Protest Gun Violence | Counter-Currents
1,498 / 11:12 Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose "save link as" or "save target as." I suppose it’s fitting that 247 years after our all-white and all-male Founding Fathers…
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Spencer J. Quinn reviews Daniel Kevles' In the Name of Eugenics, a book which seeks to debunk eugenics entirely but in fact inadvertently makes the case for its continuing relevance. https://counter-currents.com/2023/07/daniel-kevles-in-the-name-of-eugenics/
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Daniel Kevles’ In the Name of Eugenics | Counter-Currents
3,641 words Daniel Kevles In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985 It is young men like you, Bertie, who make the person with the future of the race at heart despair. Cursed with too much…